2Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
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And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; …
Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)Observe, 1. The honour God put upon Jonah, in giving him a commission to go and prophesy against Nineveh. Jonah signifies a dove , a proper name for all God’s prophets, all his people, who ought to be harmless as doves , and to mourn as doves for the sins and calamities of the land. His father’s name was Amittai—My truth ; for God’s prophets should be sons of truth. To him the word of the Lord cam…
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